"Music hath," so Congreve stated,
"Charms to soothe the savage breast";
Numismatic art is fated
May be to be likewise blest.
NAILED!
(Lord Dufferin and the Gallic Vermin.)
[At the Annual Dinner of the British Chamber of Commerce in Paris, Lord Dufferin took occasion to refer trenchantly, but temperately, to the long series of calumnies lately directed against him by certain sections of the French Press.]
Yes, Dufferin, yes, the Reptile Press
Is not confined to realms Teutonic.